Joey's Letter to the President

BrenSaSC2 · 02-27-2003, 03:04 PM

sir, with all due respect,
> > our country's in tough times right now, moral is down, people are
> unemployed
> > i know you have your hands full.
> > but please, consider this, usually a war helps the economy, i may be
> > a nobody but its my opinion in this case war will not help. I do not
> > think sadam is a threat to us, i BELIEVE if we kept our nose out of
> > the middle east we wouldn't have so many problems, sir, please
> > think, if the money
we
> > sent overseas was kept in this country FOR THE PEOPLE of this
> > country we truly would be the greatest nation in the world. I
> > believe that someone must pay for the world trade center tragedy,
> > but please, lets do our research and find the true bad guys, i dont
> > even believe it WAS bin laden, i think it was Palestine, why?
cause
> > we support Israel, who causes more trouble then anyone, they mow
children
> > down with tanks that are throwing rocks at them, so to the
> > Palestinians
WE
> > are the terrorist, and to many other country's they feel the same
> > way. we MUST strive for peace. there is NO unfinished business with
> > sadam, we
> WON
> > your father kicked his ass! so to the people thinking your doing
> > this to finish business i call BS, we won already, and if they are
> > ever a threat again we will triumph again, but right now, HERE at
> > home, we need to concentrate on our problems. your father was a
> > tremendous leader, your brother is an EXCELLENT leader
> ( I
> > have custody of my daughter since age 3, my ex never paid one dime
> > of support, your brother got me true blue cross blue shield, i call
> > it "
> white
> > mans insurance" cause its the only time i can recall my government
> > doing something that directly helped me) my youngest, two year old,
> > is also covered under this plan. we DO have troubles at home sir. i
> > am very sick, i started my own
business
> > in 1990 (www.6thplanetusedparts.com ) in the middle of a recession
> > with 3200.00, within ten years, with no loans, no rich daddy,
> > nothing, i
turned
> > it into a million dollar a year operation, now i am sick, and i dont
> qualify
> > for Medicaid, why? cause i have to much equity in my home. if i lost
> > my
> home
> > THEN i could get Medicaid, my medication runs 1200.00 every 21 days
> > (rheumatoid athritis) my oldest daughter is in a private Christian
school,
> > and soon i fear i may not be able to keep up with both her schooling
costs
> > and my medications. after all these years of GIVING to my people (i
> > only take a modest salary, the rest goes right back into the
> > economy, i pay
my
> > men well, i pay my suppliers, i have NO BBB complaints) now im am
> > faced
> with
> > losing everything i worked for.
> > this is just one example of the troubles we have at home,. and i
> > know
with
> > the tremendous leadership skills exhibited in you and your family
> > that
if
> we
> > weren't so hell bent on war you could do wonderful things for us
> > (just
> like
> > Jeb got our children insurance, shouldn't EVERY American have access
> > to AFFORDABLE health care?) should i have to lose my home, or
> > sacrifice my daughters education's cause i will soon be to sick to
> > support them and myself? please Mr. bush, do a 180, to hell with
> > this world economy and world
> police,
> > BRING IT HOME SIR!
> > i doubt ill get a response, but i sure hope you do get to read this,
> > i
> guess
> > im the typical American, 3 bedroom home, 2 kids, a couple of cars
> > and
many
> > of my friends share my feelings.
> > considering i was raised in foster homes and was homeless at age 18
> > i consider myself very fortunate, YES the American dream is still
> > there, ANYONE can make it through hard work and as my grandfather
> > would say "keeping your nose to the grindstone" its time we
> > concentrate on putting prayer BACK in school, its time for parents
> > to take back control, its time for government to work for the
> > people, not treat us like conformists but to allow us to be true
> capitalists
> > and show what we can do if given the tools.
> > im one of the few that fell in the "cracks" as a kid, im praying as
> > i
get
> > sicker i dont fall into the cracks again.
> > may god bless you, i know your a good man, i can see it in your
> > eyes,
dont
> > listen to advisors, speak from the heart, because i think you got a
> > big
> one.
> > just some thoughts from the "average" American citizen. best
> > regards, Joe Cutrone
> >
>

PS-I apologize for the arrows-I have a broken ball in my mouse (no rude comments please-haha) and I wasn't about to fidget with this thing to delete all the arrows

monkeyracing · 02-27-2003, 03:20 PM

Nicley put, Joey. It'd be nice if GWB could get his mind off the middle east and think about home for a while.

Jim

Joeybagodonuts · 02-27-2003, 03:29 PM

thank you bren, and thank you yimminy, i have ALLOT of respect for canada, you guys many have a 'troubled" economy but you take care of your sick,your old people are not thrown out in the street, 99% of people from canada have BASIC human courtesy, something we have forgotten (just look at project sw1, a perfect exmaple of the new genration hahahaha just cracking on ya back bri!)
but seriously, why cant we get along better and keep our noses out? canadas a HUGE country and you dont see them starting trouble everywhere.
hope you guys enjoy reading it...

mannyopolis · 02-27-2003, 05:07 PM

Sweet letter joe. I pray the Prez sees it. I almost lost my uncle and aunt on 9-11 and somewhat want retribution, but not at the cost of my cousin who is the Baddest Colonel by now. I agree.. bring it home , and find another way to deal with any threat that comes are way. ( if they come this way). I only pray for the people of those countries, who should stand up for themselves and change his Damned Regime. It's not ours but theirs. I really hope we can avoid war. Well in any case I still have to find money to pay the damn utility bill. peace out Doggz

Joeybagodonuts · 02-27-2003, 06:45 PM

thanks!

far_from_sane · 02-27-2003, 08:17 PM

Very well put I'll have to agree with ya, if we pumped all the money we dumped into all those other countries into our country we probally wont be in a recession. But I think that Bin Laden did have something to do with 9-11, and he had something to do with the Embassie bombing in Nairobi, and Tanzania, and the bombing of the USS COLE, Now what if one of Saddams weapons falls into the hands of on of these terrorist and it shows up in an American city, I saw what happened on 9-11 I saw it with my own eyes, I dont think I'll ever go back to NYC, but the President is trying to prevent that from happening again, and Saddam needs to go, he promotes terrorism in Israel with Palestians, by giving money to Suicide bombers families but that is a whole nother issue that probally would be solved if Israel would give them all the West Bank and Gaza Strip, couldnt Israel not be a Jewish State and them and Palestine become on country.anywayz..... I dont think that issue will go away if Saddam is removed they been fighting over a that little piece of land for 50+ years now...but I think war is ineviatable now, it will only be a matter of time till Bush says go he hasnt been building forces up there for now reason just listen to the speech he gave last night he talked about Iraq as a democracy life without Saddam. I would rather the U.N. go in there rather than the U.S. alone cause were gonna have to be a Occupying force and thats just gonna fuel the fire for those terrorist, its pretty much a lose lose situation Bush is in either attack Iraq, or wait and there is a possibility one of Saddams weapons could end up in America who knows whats gonna happen wish life could go back to the way it was before 9-11, I say we should start a pool and try to guess when the war will start, cause I dont think theres no stopping it..

mannyopolis · 02-27-2003, 08:26 PM

less than 2 months. US is ready, and is hoping the people will revolt.

SaturnMotors94SL2 · 02-27-2003, 09:12 PM

Yup were ready all right. I think George Bush is trying to take an approach to this war like LBJ did to Vietnam...Hes just waiting for one incident from the Iraqi side so he can claim that Americans were attacked by them so he will have a justified cause to go to war. Right now he has no real reason besides reconnaissance that we have, but if we get attacked, with all the troops already over there....We'll be in Baghdad in no time.....That was a nicely written letter Joey, but I have to disagree with the war part...After all of this that we've done infront of the UN, Collin Powell going up there and arguing to let us use force against Iraq, we would look like pussies to back down now. All the preparation, all the money spent transporting troops and equipment over there, and you just wanna turn around? Thats a waste of money right there. If we go over there for nothing that would be a bigger waste than if we went over there and took Saddam out. He is one of the worst dictators the world has, and he poses a real threat. I know I'm only 16 and I might not know everything, but this is my point of view on things, you all can take it however you want.

KAdams4458 · 02-28-2003, 05:45 AM

You make a couple of excellent points in that letter, Joey. I hope the man up top gets to see it.

I myself have been pro-war for some time now because of my asessment of the economy. Your letter certainly made me think about my stance on war at this time.

Joeybagodonuts · 02-28-2003, 03:07 PM

i see and agree with many of your points BUT to lengthen the subject, my vieiw is this, this is bushs OIL WAR, he has HUGE amounts of interests in foreign oil HIS FAMILY benifits from it, right now crude oil is CHEAPER then during the 1974 gas crisis, but were paying quadruple? sorry, even with inflation that makes no sense.
but hey, im always open to hear everyones side, that was just my point of view from where im standing...